Nomadland is the kind of film that really only comes around once or twice in a decade, one that manages to be so profound and understanding in its exploration of the human condition, the very act of just witnessing it seems close to a privilege. Chloé Zhao has been steadily building herself to becoming one…

Situated on a tranquil beach somewhere in the French Riviera is a beautiful mansion, which serves as the summer home to Raymond (David Niven), a well-known Parisian aristocrat and man about town, who has a tendency to romance any woman who catches his attention. Accompanying Raymond on this summer sojourn is his daughter, Cécile (Jean…

It’s a fascinating situation where a film is such an enormous sensation, everything related to it, whether narratively or thematically, is indelibly associated with that particular work. This is most notable when it comes to historical dramas, whereby true events serve as the foundation for some compelling tales. In the case of Moulin Rouge, it’s…

While he was a highly prolific director, one can separate Vincente Minnelli’s work into some major groups, classifying nearly all of his efforts under one of the few categories in which he mostly thrived. Some of his most cherished work falls under the grouping of his melodramas, with many of the films that made him…

Through her capacity as one of the film industry’s preeminent artistic revolutionaries, Agnès Varda introduced many distinct ideas into the global film culture, among them was the concept of cinécriture (“film writing”), perhaps her most important idea, since it is the one factor that not only bound her films together under a single artistic theory,…